Thoughts on Integrity

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best

each and every day.

~Abraham Lincoln

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.

If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

~Alan Simpson

Don't try to be different. Just be good.

To be good is different enough.

~Arthur Freed

Are right and wrong convertible terms,

dependant upon popular opinion?

~William Lloyd Garrison

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

~William Safire

Try not to become a man of success but rather

try to become a man of value.

~Albert Einstein

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.

That's my religion.

~Abraham Lincoln

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right,

it's ended up not being right.

~Mario Cuomo

Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.

~Davy Crockett

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:

those who work and those who take the credit.

He told me to try to be in the first group;

there was less competition there.

~Indira Gandhi

I would rather be right than President.

~Henry Clay, speech, 1850

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality

for a public, and another for a private man.

~Thomas Jefferson, 1809

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty

and how few by deceit.

~Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -

but right through every human heart.

~Alexander Solzhenitsyn